Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 14
"Change-of-life baby" means a baby born when the mother is near the end of the age for having children (old-fashioned).
Who acts: Change life baby, mother, age · What happens: mean, bear, be, have · To what, where: baby, end, children
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Change life baby, mother, age), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 baby | punct |
| 2 | Change | Change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 baby | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 baby | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 of | punct |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 baby | compound |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 baby | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obj |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 baby | acl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 end | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 end | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 end | cop |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 born | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 age | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 age | det |
| 22 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 end | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 having | mark |
| 24 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 age | acl |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 having | obj |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 fashioned | punct |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fashioned | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 old | punct |
| 29 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 children | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 fashioned | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Change life baby | a baby | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | a baby not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the mother | near the end; of the age | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | the age not said here | children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:euphemisms:011-pregnancy-and-birth.lesson:14.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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